Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs.
Such men as fortune raises from a mean estate to the highest elevation by way of a joke.
Wisdom triumphs over chance.
There is hardly a case in which the dispute was not caused by a woman.
Two things only the people actually desire: bread and circuses.
Virture offers the only path in this life that leads to tranquility.